Pours a nice copper color with a white head and good lacing. Great combination of malts and hops makes this pretty complex. I like that this is more hopped than most pale ales.

copper colored, unfiltered, thick head to start, great lacing. 4/5 appearance. Peaty aroma, dough. Malty palate, very smoky. On the malty side of balance, surprised this is a ’pale’, the hops don’t quite seem to balance the crapload of hops.

11/10/08 notes: bottle. Pours an unusual amber-brown color with a medium-sized, white head. Aroma is toasty, with peet, soil, hops, and citrus. Complemented by a light body, this pale ale was certainly unusual: it was heavily hopped – which lended estery flavors -- but also with unusual toasted, bitter, and tart-citric notes as well. Certainly unusual, and I know I wouldn’t want more than a couple of these at once. Low points on drinkability, but I’ll will say, Shoals PA has distinctive and not unpleasant character.

Bottle. Pours orange amber with an off white head. Well balanced aroma with sweet malt and hops. The flavor is light but well balanced, a touch sweet with hops in the finish. Nice.

not a bad beer, didn’t impress me much, i know it and other beers by it’s mother brewery won some awards... but i don’t think it’s award winning beer